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# מְנַשִּׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4520

**Menashshite** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Menashshite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4520/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְנַשִּׁי: adj. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4520/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gent. of מ׳ 1; only c. art. הַמְֿ׳, as n. coll., of tribe E. of Jordan: Dt 4:43 2 K 10:33; שֵׁבֶט הַמְֿ׳ Dt 29:7 1 Ch 26:32.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Manassite\[s\] (2); the Manassite\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 29:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.29.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.29.7/#tree)

וַנִּקַּח֙ אֶת־אַרְצָ֔ם וַנִּתְּנָ֣הּ לְנַחֲלָ֔ה לָרֽאוּבֵנִ֖י וְלַגָּדִ֑י וְלַחֲצִ֖י שֵׁ֥בֶט הַֽמְנַשִּֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* and we.took (et) land their and we gave.it for an.inheritance to the Reubenite\[s\] and to the Gadite\[s\] and to the.half of.the.tribe of the.Manassite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

[Deuteronomy 4:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.43/#tree)

אֶת־בֶּ֧צֶר בַּמִּדְבָּ֛ר בְּאֶ֥רֶץ הַמִּישֹׁ֖ר לָרֻֽאוּבֵנִ֑יוְאֶת־רָאמֹ֤ת בַּגִּלְעָד֙ לַגָּדִ֔י וְאֶת־גּוֹלָ֥ן בַּבָּשָׁ֖ן לַֽמְנַשִּֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* (et) Bezer in the wilderness in the.land of the.plain for the Reubenite\[s\] and (et) Ramoth in (the) Gilead for the Gadite\[s\] and (et) Golan in (the) Bashan for the Manassite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Bezer in the wilderness, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4520/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).